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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 033903 (2006) [4 pages]

Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation

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Martin Centurion1,2, Mason A. Porter2,3, P. G. Kevrekidis4, and Demetri Psaltis1
1Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
2Center for the Physics of Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
3Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4515, USA

Received 14 April 2006; published 21 July 2006

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We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show that wave collapse can be prevented. We corroborate these experimental results with numerical simulations of the (2+1)-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with piecewise constant coefficients and a theoretical analysis of this setting using a moment method.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.033903
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.033903
PACS:
42.65.Sf, 05.45.Yv, 42.65.Tg
 
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